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This 10 page report discusses the changes in the hockey world that have lead to the Americanization of what is essentially Canada’s “national pastime.” Hockey is quite simply what Canadians do in the winter: play it, watch it, follow it through the newspaper, television, radio. Canada's hockey system desperately requires is national leadership and a re-focusing of its priorities and its vision for the future if it intends to maintain hockey the way it claims it wants to.
Increased government funding, stronger youth and development programs, financing from the National Hockey League and an improvement in the leadership abilities of the Canadian Hickey League are essential. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWcan.rtf
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Going South." According to Klein and Reif (1998), these are tough times for Canadian hockey fans as "as goals dwindle down to a precious few and the memory of
NHL teams in Winnipeg, Quebec City, and Minnesota fades to a sun-baked, desert brown" (pp.30). Why, Canadians ask, do we no longer dominate the game we created? 1998 brought about
much head-shaking relating to Canadas recent "failures" on the international hockey front. Klein and Reif (1998) point to Canadas appalling home-ice loss
to the United states in the 1996 World Cup, its crash-and-burn self destruction in front of Dominik Hasek and the resolute team from the Czech Republic the Winter Olympics
of 1998 in Nagano, and a number of other defeats for Canadian women, juniors, and assorted pro teams over the last few years. Additionally, the dirge goes on, the National
Hockey Leagues brightest stars are now Russians, Finns, Swedes, Slovaks, Latvians, Americans; only the grinders now, it seems, are Canadians. The big issue, of course, is what is Canada
doing about it!? The Official Religion According to Farber (1995), Canadians spontaneously refer to hockey as their religion, which, if true, makes the
NHL their church. The believers should be happy but they arent. What has become the end of the 20th centurys equivalent of "infidels in the sanctuary" for Canadian hockey
fans has been the Americans typical response to co-opt anything they decide they like the feel of. Canadians have been longing for "some o dat ol time religion." As
Farber (1995) said, "the NHL has headed south on Canadians, and it doesnt have a round-trip ticket. The reality is that while Canada is still hockeys soul, the country is
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